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Johann Christian Klengel

Ideal Landscape with a Shepherd and Cows

1770–1824
Brush and black ink over black chalk. Two framing lines in pen and brown and pen and black ink, one of them possibly by the artist
18.7 × 27.5 cm (7.4 × 10.8 in)

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